NB-IoT RAN Design & Dimensioning

NB-IoT RAN Design & Dimensioning is mainly aimed at a technical audience. It is suitable for technical professionals, RAN operators, Radio planning engineers, RAN optimization engineers, IoT service providers, Research Institutes, defense sector, who currently are or will be involved in NB-IoT RAN planning and NB-IoT network dimensioning with emphasis on coverage extension, number of IoT connected devices capacity and NB-IoT coverage deployments.

Prerequisites: Those wishing to take this course should have a good and solid understanding of NB-IoT radio physical layer, with emphasis on NB-IoT air interface and physical layer procedures.

This NB-IoT training course leads the audience into a deep dive towards NB-IoT RAN planning, design and network dimensioning principles, both from the essential understanding as well as configuration perspective. It presents in details the opportunities, challenges, and risks that’s needed to exploit and deploy the NB-IoT RAN network as inband, guardband and standalone deployment.

Course content explains in details how to maximize NB-IoT RAN network connected IoT devices capacity and enhance data transmission, evaluate service quality, optimize usage of radio network resources, design the RACH channel, plan for paging capacity, dimension TAs and consider quality requirements for RAN reference signals and channels. Finally it also considers some NB-IoT RAN optional features to improve performance. The course is supported by proper excel dimensioning (calculator) files for practical exercises and case studies.

• Understanding NB-IoT RAN planning and dimensioning requirements
• Explore NB-IoT RAN coverage and capacity principles
• Learn how NB-IoT planning will affect LTE coverage and capacity
• Learn how to plan for cell edge users as well as average cell performance conditions
• Understand the principles behind the control channels and reference signals capacity and coverage requirements
• Learn how to complete special topics on capacity and coverage (e. Paging, RACH planning & dimensioning, RACH Root sequence, PCI &TA planning)
• Practice on capacity and coverage planning tools (i.e. excel calculators examples) through practical exercises

• Equip organization engineers with the necessary knowledge to accomplish difficult and complex tasks related to NB-IoT RAN planning and dimensioning.
• Understand how NB-IoT deployment will affect LTE capacity and coverage.
• Decide about the parameter configuration for paging capacity
• Decide about RACH capacity and coverage, including the collision probability estimations
• Keep ahead of competitors in offering well planned network, maximizing coverage, capacity (throughput) and number of IoT devices targeting to good quality customers’IoT services
• Identify new revenue streams that can be enabled through NB-IoT network
• Prepare for future network expansions and quality performance optimization

Instructor-Led Training

On-Site Classroom: 3days

Web delivered (Virtual): 3 days

Excellent and descriptive course material (pdf file) will be provided